Search - Billy Bragg :: The Internationale/Live and Dubious

Excellent remastering, but packaging is marginal

A. Helfer | Pennsylvania | 11/18/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"These discs include Bragg's Internationale and Live and Dubious EPs, with some bonus tracks. The second disc is a DVD that contains material from a small handful of Bragg concerts in the 1980s when there were still a few serious communist/socialist countries in the world.



The remastering of the music is great. This is, perhaps, Bragg's most overtly political music, with much of it consisting of his renditions of socialist standards.



Anyway, the content is great. The packaging, however, is marginal. It's just a cardboard sleeve. The discs slide in and out. There is nearly nothing by way of liner notes. For the price, you might hope for more. And Amazon is charging nearly twice what I paid new for this at a local record store (two Hamiltons!). Outrageous, especially when Bragg himself put a legend on the original cover of this disc telling people not to pay more than 3.99 English pounds for it. But, then, we're making the world safe for capitalism, right?"